About Our Lawyers

Position: Associate

Address:
206 West 14th Street
PO Box 1030
Sioux Falls, SD 57101-1030

Email: kford@dehs.com

Direct: 605-357-1246

Commercial and Complex Litigation

Corporation and Business

Health Law

Kathryn E. Ford

Kathy practices in the areas of commercial and general litigation, health care law, public utilities law and general corporate matters. Kathy came to the firm after working as Associate General Counsel and Director of Legal Affairs for Knology, Inc., a regional broadband service provider located in the southeast and upper mid-west. Prior to that Kathy was an Assistant United States Attorney in the District of South Dakota, where she prosecuted criminal health care fraud and other white collar offenses such as bank fraud, credit card fraud and identity theft. Kathy also spent several years as an Associate General Counsel at QWEST Communications, practicing in the area of regulatory litigation before numerous state public utility commissions and the FCC. Kathy began her career after law school as a federal law clerk for the Honorable Donald E. O’Brien, United States District Court for the Northern District of Iowa in Sioux City.

Kathy is a 1992 graduate of the University of South Dakota, School of Law and was president of the Moot Court Board. She previously served on the Brandon, SD City Council and will complete an MBA at Auburn University in May, 2010.

Professional Experience

  • Davenport, Evans, Hurwitz & Smith, LLP
    Associate: 2009 – present
  • Associate General Counsel / Director of Legal Affairs, Knology, Inc., 2006-2009
  • Assistant United States Attorney - District of South Dakota, 2002-2006
  • Associate General Counsel, QWEST Communications, 1994-2002
  • Federal Law Clerk, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Iowa, 1992-1994

Admitted to Practice (State):

  • Iowa, 1992
  • South Dakota, 1993
  • Colorado, 1995

Admitted to Practice (Federal):

  • United States District Court, District of Colorado, 1997
  • United States District Court, District of South Dakota 2002
  • United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit, 2003

Professional Memberships

  • American Health Lawyers Association
  • Health Care Compliance Association
  • State Bar of South Dakota
  • State of Iowa Bar Association
  • Colorado Bar Association

Education

  • University of South Dakota (B.S., Criminal Justice, 1989)
  • University of South Dakota School of Law (J.D., Sterling Honors Graduate, 1992)

Other

  • Co-Author: Adding Constitutional Depravation to Untimely Death: South Dakota’s Living Will Pregnancy Provisions, 37 South Dakota Law Review 388 (1992).